Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! - That Cigarette - Merle Travis/M. Travis/T. Williams
Now I'm a feller with a heart of gold
And the ways of a gentleman I've been told
The kind of guy that wouldn't even harm a flea
But if me and a certain character met
The guy that invented the cigarette
I'd murder that son of a gun in the first degree
It ain't cuz I don't smoke myself
And I don't reckon that it'll harm your health
Smoked all my life and I ain't dead yet
But nicotine slaves are all the same
At a pettin' party or a poker game
Everything gotta stop while they have a cigarette
Smoke smoke smoke that cigarette
Puff puff puff and if you smoke yourself to death
Tell st peter at the golden gate
That you hate to make him wait
But you just gotta have another cigarette
Now in a game of chance the other night
Old dame fortune was a doing me right
The kings and the queens just kept on coming' round
And I got a full and I bet' em high
But my bluff didn't work on a certain guy
He just kept on raisin' and layin' that money down
Now he'd raise me and I'd raise him
I sweated blood gotta sink or swim
He finally called and didn't even raise the bet
So I said aces full pops how' bout you
He said I'll tell you in a minute or two
But right now I gotta have me a cigarette
Smoke smoke smoke that cigarette
Puff puff puff and if you smoke yourself to death
Tell st peter at the golden gate
That you hates to make him wait
But you just gotta have another cigarette
The other night I had a date
With the cutest little girl in the united states
A high bred uptown fancy little dame
She loved me and it seemed to me
That things were' bout like they oughta be
So hand in hand we strolled down lover's lane
She was oh so far from a cake of ice
And our smoochin' party was goin' nice
So help me cats I believe I'd be there yet
But I give her a kiss and a little squeeze
And she said ah Marty excuse me please
I just gotta have me another cigarette
And she said smoke smoke smoke that cigarette
Puff puff puff and if you smoke yourself to death
Tell st peter at the golden gate
That you hate to make him wait
But you just gotta have another cigarette
